The Bible is full of images and symbols, figures of speech, of allegorical senses, types and anti-types. Wherever we go we find concrete descriptions and recurring patterns. If you do not understand the symbolic and literal sense of the biblical images we lose much of their message. And conventional Bible dictionaries, by broad and comprehensive they are, provided little help in this area. The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery is the first contemporary reference work dedicated to exploring the images, symbols, motifs, metaphors and literary patterns found in the Bible. More than that, it examines the Bible's universal archetypes or master images--including the plot motifs and character types that recur throughout life, literature and the Bible.